Sure, seems like a bit of a departure from what I tend to expect from the programmers blog

and glad to hear it makes sense, I tend to have a 50-50 in my attempts to explain things because I usually understand them a little different than the standard way

after 12 years in visual studio, I have to say, emacs is pretty damn awesome

Haskellers are nuts, they are such big fans of safety guarantees they have compile time guarantees I never even would have thought of, they wrote a web framework that will give you compile-time URL guarantees so if you make a typo referencing a link or a script or what not you're compile will fail

Interesting how in most things, extremes of either side begin to appear surprisingly similar. Extremes of weak typing/lack of type checking give a great deal of freedom in your approach to defining your behaviors because it accepts close enough and tries to force types to be ones that work, extremes of strong typing/type checking give a great deal of freedom in your approach to defining your behaviors because the types are analyzed so thoroughly as to be capable of figuring out what you want

I guess dynamics do what you tell them you want, strong types figure out what you want for you

result is behavior that feels similar

right, sorry

extremes always have such similar results, same as with every other polarized system. wonder why that is. feels like one of those abstract logical truths super-math-logic-nuts would have come up with some proofs or explanations for.

haha, night hoss

wow, take it easy on the flags

who are the guys in the photo?

thanks @WorldEngineer

Nothing like an error you can't rationalize in a language you struggle to understand to begin with. Some Haskell yelling at me right now about a '/n' character on a line that is syntactically simple and correct..

...rewrite the line from scratch and it works... Agh.

argh I hate how defeatist the attitude of 90% of engineers are, coupled with their ego's they're always so ready to say something is impossible just because they don't know how to do it... gra. another one of the many effects of not feeling safe-to-fail which corporations always spread.

There's no perfect approach 100% of the time, but that doesn't mean people should just not even try because it seems like it's hard, when there are ways things you can do to get benefits. People just throw in the towel too quickly.